IV any traces of another Californian?

[Josiah Miller]

To tell you the truth, to me, IV reminded me of Phil Dick (especially A Scanner Darkly or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch) and Bukowski's Pulp.  I think it felt like pulp to me because Bukowski was another writer writing out of his element and pulling off a great novel (hopefully unlike Bukowski it won't be P's last).  And Phil Dick, well....I think the resemblances are uncanny.  I couldn't help thinking about Dick the whole time I read IV.

Thanks,
Josiah

--- On Thu, 9/3/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> From: umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
 I'd like
> to ask you if 
> anyone has spotted any hint at that increasingly famous
> Californian 
> writer that Pynchon must have read while writing GR (and
> Vineland, I 
> suspect), that is Philip Kindred Dick.
> _____________
> umberto rossi
> 
>